Mark your calendar for our last meeting of 2024 on Tuesday, December 3 at 7pm at the Woodward Park Library. Tehipite Chapter member Robert Turner will be presenting “The Seven Laws of the Great View: A Visual Essay on Landscape Aesthetics — or, How We Appreciate Great Scenic Viewpoints.” More information below.
The annual election of Executive Committee members is approaching. This is the calendar for 2024's ExCom election:
Appointment of Election Committee — October 9
Receipt of names for consideration by nominating committee — October 18
Nomination Committee report of names of nominees — October 25
Production of eligible voter list — October 31
Receipt of candidate nomination petitions — November 1
Ballot mailing date — November 6
Deadline for receipt of returned ballots — December 5, 5:00 pm
Counting of ballots — December 7 or 8, place & time to be determined
Candidates for the election will be nominated by the Nominating Committee, consisting of :
William Fjellbo — jbfjellbo@sti.net — (559) 642-4511
Gary Lasky — data.nations@gmail.com — (559) 790-3495
Dan O'Connell — agrariandemocracy@gmail.com — (559) 976-1940
It is also possible for fifteen or more members to nominate a candidate by petition, submitted no later than October 25, 2024.
The Sierra Club is a national, member-supported environmental organization, which seeks to influence public policy in both Washington and the state capitals through public education and grass-roots political action.
The Tehipite Chapter Mission Statement:
- To explore, enjoy, and protect the wild places of the earth;
- To practice and promote the responsible use of the earth's ecosystems and resources;
- To educate and enlist humanity to protect and restore the quality of the natural and human environments.
Read more about us here.
Conservation and Executive Committee meetings are held virtually via Zoom. If any Tehipite Chapter members want to observe or participate in these meetings, contact Chapter ExCom member Gary Lasky for permission and instructions.
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Tuesday, December 3 at 7 PM at the Woodward Park Library, 944 E. Perrin Avenue, Fresno — Tehipite Chapter member Robert Turner will present “The Seven Laws of the Great View: A Visual Essay on Landscape Aesthetics — or, How We Appreciate Great Scenic Viewpoints.”
Join backpacker and mountaineer Robert Turner for an exploration of the aesthetic side of backpacking, and learn how to enhance the enjoyment of magnificent landscapes, with examples drawn from the grand American West.
Photo courtesy of the National Park Service, Glacier National Park
Robert Turner has been a U.S. Government geologist and a high school physics and geology teacher. He has made presentations to the Tehipite Chapter on Great Viewpoints of the American West and on the Geology of the Sierra Nevada.
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Email Karen Hammer at ecuagirl45@yahoo.com if you have any questions or suggestions for future programs.
Tehipite Chapter has posted recordings of recent Zoom General Meetings on YouTube. Click on the titles below to view the videos. Only our Zoom meetings are recorded.
May 16, 2024 — Central California Environmental Justice Network with Executive Director Nayamin Martinez
April 17, 2024 — Being Curator of the Yosemite Conservation Heritage Center with Connor McIntosh
December 14, 2023 — Giant Sequoia Regeneration After Recent Fires in the Sierra with Dr. Chad Hanson
October 26, 2023 — Beavers: Building Climate Resilience Across California
April 19, 2023 — What's the Buzz Around Regenerative Agriculture with Jeff Mitchell
February 15, 2023 — Save the Cougars! Building the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing
January 19, 2023 — The Return of Gray Wolves to California with Beth Pratt
November 16, 2022 — Mountain Men of the Sierra Nevada with Shirley Spencer
October 19, 2022 — The History of Bears in the West with Tyler Coleman, National Park Service Biologist
September 21, 2022 — Fresno State Students Go Backpacking
June 15, 2022 — Community Choice Energy with Kirsten Andrews-Schwind of Peninsula Clean Energy
May 18, 2022 — Bring Back the Pollinators with Dave Kollen, Ambassador for the Xerces Society
April 20, 2022 — Western Artists and Their Influence on the National Parks
March 16, 2022 — Fresno Bee Reporter Marek Warszawski Discusses Mysteries and Lessons of the Creek Fire and Status of Development of San Joaquin River Parkway
February 16, 2022 — Glaciers and Climate Change
January 19, 2022 — Indigenous and Environmental Resource Center on the San Joaquin River
December 15, 2021 — Iceland's Remarkable Beauty
October 20, 2021 — In the Struggle Book Talk: A Call to Action in an Ongoing Battle against Industrial Agriculture
September 15, 2021 — North Coast Redwoods: The Heart of Interpretation
June 16, 2021 — International Rivers (part 1), International Rivers (part 2)
May 19, 2021 — Wild Utah! America's Redrock Wilderness
March 17, 2021 — Archaeology of the Sierra National Forest
February 17, 2021 — Salmon Restoration on the San Joaquin